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The JUNE 15th Clown Revue
8:00 pm
at
The KRAINE THEATER
85 EAST 4TH STREET
BETWEEN 2nd & Bowery, 1st FL
NO WHEELCHAIR ACCESS
Featuring
Matthew Pauli
Matthew Pauli- is pretty high profile for a guy nobody has heard of. By conservative estimates, in the last six years more than 950,000 people have seen him perform live and thought he was somebody else. He has performed around the US, in Europe, Asia and Africa. Matthew has worked as an actor and puppeteer as well as a clown. He trained at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College and has toured with Big Apple Circus as well as being active in Big Apple Circus Clown Care in Washington DC and Baltimore for ten years.
with
Mr. Joel Jeske's Musical Chairs
Joel Jeske is a professional clown, actor, physical comedian, director, teacher, writer and creator of his own theater shows. He has appeared in major feature films including Two for the Money with Al Pacino and Two Weeks Notice with Sandra Bullock. On television, Joel was featured in Sex in the City, The Late Show with David Letterman, Live with Regis and Kelly, and most recently with partner Barry Lubin in Circo Massimo. Joel is a creator and performer for the physical theatre company Parallel Exit. He created and starred in Parallel Exit’s Off-Broadway hits THIS WAY THAT WAY and CUT TO THE CHASE. Joel was nominated along with Parallel Exit for a Drama Desk award in 2008 for creating the show CUT TO THE CHASE. As a clown, Joel toured and created clown acts for Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey Circus, and hosted The Big Apple Circus 2006-07 production of STEP RIGHT UP! At the AEMI International Clown Festival in Hangzhou China, Joel and comedy partner Chris Lueck performed their critically acclaimed slapstick show The HeyYa Brothers. Joel teaches circus and clown with The Big Apple Circus and Cirque Du Jour both internationally at home in New York. Joel and his wife Juliet can be seen all around the New York area with their business Red Noses New York, www.rednosesnyc.com. Joel was honored as Clown of the Year 2007 at the Golden Nose awards and won the Audience Choice Award for best clown act in 2009.
Kinder Pie
Ishah Janssen-Faith was most recently seen in “Standing Clear”, an ensemble show that she co-wrote and produced with her theatre co., Coffee Cup. She trained for two years with Philippe Gaulier in London and co-devised numerous shows while there. With her previous theatre co., Bouillabaisse, she co-created and performed “A Pig Behind Their Eyes”, and with Sounding Noise Theatre Co., “Napoleon In Exile”, both of which toured the London Fringe. In New York, Ishah is the Artistic Director of Coffee Cup, a theatre co., with whom she has co-devised and starred in Turning Tables (Collective:Unconscious), and Standing Clear (Access Theatre). Outside of her company, she was most recently seen as a member of Kendall Cornell’s Clowns Ex Machina in “Clown Axioms” (undergroundzero festival) “Clowns by Dead Reckoning” (LaMama) and “Not Just for Shock Value: A Femmes-Clowns Assemblage” (Six Figures Artists of Tomorrow Festival). Strictly as an actor, she has most enjoyed playing Olivia in “Twelfth Night” and Margherita in Dario Fo’s “Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay!” and Cute Girl in “Not From Canada” with Sponsored by Nobody. She has performed Kinder Pie at HERE, The Moon and Galapagos.
Conceived by Kendall Cornell & Ishah Janssen-Faith
Directed by Kendall Cornell
Performed by Ishah Janssen-Faith
"The Audition"
Performed by . . . 5-6-7-8
John Leo got his BA in Drama/Dance from Bard College (’97) but he wasn’t quite making ‘dances’ or ‘drama’ and so he ended up at the Dell’ Arte School of Physical Theatre (’99). He has studied with ruthless Clown mentors to whom he is grateful: Ronlin Foreman, Sue Morrison and Ricardo Puchetti. For seven years (2001-2007) he lived in Juneau, Alaska performing/creating with Perseverance Theatre, Kitschy Yum-Yum Burlesque and Wild Rumpus Clown Theatre (Best of San Francisco Fringe 2003). Mr. Leo has toured his solo clown work throughout Mexico, Canada and the ‘Lower 48’ and has received funding from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Rasmuson Foundation. Mr. Leo is currently a member of the Big Apple Circus Clown Care, as a Pediatric Clown in NYC area hospitals. http://www.johnleo.net
Deborah Kaufmann spent her childhood in dance and acting classes. She earned a degree in Visual Art from Bennington College. After brief careers as a production potter, a sign language interpreter, a props mistress, a typesetter and an aluminum can inspector, Deborah stumbled into her life as a clown. By seeking out master teachers such as Richard Pochinko, Tony Montanaro, Bob Berky, Avner Eisenberg and John Towsen, she has studied the art of clowning in its many facets. Since its inception in 1986, Deborah has performed with Big Apple Circus Clown Care (sm). “Dr. Dibble†brings her own brand of buffoonery to hospitalized children and their caregivers. As the Creative and Educational Coordinator for Clown Care and Vaudeville Caravan, she auditions and trains new performers, and oversees the ongoing artistic development of almost 100 unique “clown doctors.†She has taught hospital clowning in Brazil, France, The Netherlands, Finland and Australia. As the tuba player for The Baltic Street Blowhards, an eccentric band, she played NYC Parks, Symphony Space and Avery Fisher Hall. Deborah has performed her original works in the U.S., Canada, Germany, Brazil and Australia. Of her performance at the 2006 New Clown Theater Festival nytheatre.com said, “this performance gleams most brightly, with true mischief and solid will operating unfettered at maximum strength.†http://www.TooShortToFallOver.com
Julie Pasqual is a renaissance woman whose first art form was dance. She is a student of renowned ballet teacher Dick Andros, and a graduate of New York City’s High School of Performing Arts. Julie has appeared with ballet and modern dance companies, and her work in musical theatre has taken her to 48 of the 50 states. As an actress she has performed in everything from Shakespeare to the work of inner-city teenage playwrights. As a clown she is part of the Big Apple Circus Clown Care , performing as Dr. Ima Confused for pediatric patients in New York City hospitals. As a storyteller, she has told at venues such as the Kennedy Center, the New Jersey Storytelling Festival, The Connecticut Storytelling Festival, and at numerous schools, libraries, museums, festivals, and even weddings! Julie was chosen to record three stories for the Cotsen Children’s Library in Princeton University, and she is the voice for several children’s and young adult audio books at the Andrew Heiskill Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped in New York City. Julie would like it known that she is a whiz with a crochet hook, and bakes a mean cookie! http://www.juliepasqual.co
The Crutch
"THE CRUTCH" is a 5 minute film written for the Flywheel Film Festival. The challenge was to create a loop by linking scenes to a previous film and a following film. We had to begin with an upside-down clipboard and end with something "sexual." The result was a twisted Sesame Street-esque story about a little girl's effort to con a clown out of his delivery. Written & Directed by Rick Midler. Produced by Samara Yeshaiek. Starring Rick Midler, Lola Votruba., Mistress B (AKA: Kenwin Dapo) and Donald Austin as the Gimp.
BIOS
RICK MIDLER (WRITER/DIRECTOR/LEAD ROLE): is an Emmy Award-winning writer and director. His work as a Creative Director and Senior VP at BBDO/NY for clients such as Snickers, Pizza Hut, FedEx, HBO, Cingular Wireless and M&M's have impressed the judges of the Andy's, Clio's, London Festival, and at Cannes. His work has been published in AdAge, AdWeek, Creativity Magazine, Shoot Magazine and Communication Arts. Throughout his career, Midler has worked with top names in the entertainment business, such as Spike Lee, John Turturro, Ashton Kutcher, Fran Drescher, Roseanne, Megan Mullally, Jack Palance, Elijah Wood, Forest Whitaker and Sydney Pollack. In addition, Rick Midler is a musician/songwriter and a visual artist whose paintings have been viewed and sold in a number of solo exhibits in Manhattan.
SAMARA YESHAIEK (PRODUCER): Samara's feature films include INTO MY HEART for Jean Doumanian Productions (Mighty Aphrodite, Bullets Over Broadway). SAY YOU'LL BE MINE, OUTSIDE PROVIDENCE, A SHOT AT GLORY, CIAO AMERICA AND WHEN ZACHARY BEAVER CAME TO TOWN. In July of 2001, Samara helped to launch the New York based Revere Pictures where she not only helped create the film company's financial and developmental structure, but was responsible for the production, delivery, distribution and marketing of their films I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD starring Clive Owen and Charlotte Rampling (Paramount) and THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR, starring Kim Basinger and Jeff Bridges (Focus Features). In 2002 Samara co-produced CORN, starring Jena Malone (Pride and Prejudice, Donnie Darko, Stepmom) and in 2003 she produced APPROACHING HEAVEN starring Mathew Carey (The Banger Sisters, Old School). Her latest films include WALTZING ANNA and New Jersey Film Festival winner BUZZ KILL which is currently being screened at The Cannes Film Festival 2009.
The Washer Women
Slapstick Dojo Students present the classic Washer Woman Gag!
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